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Petitions to the House of Lords: 1696
Petitions to the House of Lords, 1597-1696
A History of the County of Middlesex
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… in the customership of Bristol. I was clerk to John Dowles, customer inwards of the port of Bristol, 3 years, and … received any acquittance; thereupon I began to mistrust Dowles, and Lord Buckhurst sending for a prisage account, … for the same, upon which he arrested me. Particulars of Dowles' unjust proceedings in refusing repayment of bills …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… for more than half a year, at the instigation of John Dowles, customs' officer inwards in the port of Bristol, for … chargeable on goods brought in ships named, of which John Dowles has deceived Her Majesty, and divided the proceeds, … from 1594 to 1598. [8 pages.] 57. II. Account of Dowles' abuses in discharging strangers' bonds of employment …